Car construction.



No. 770,132. PATENTED SEPT. 13, 1904. H. F. VOGEL.

CAR CONSTRUCTION. APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16. 1904.

N0 MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET .1.

PATENTED SEPT. 13, 1904.

- H. F, VOGEL. GAR CONSTRUCTION.

APPLICATION FILED JAN. 16. 1904.

2 SHEETS-BEBET'Z.

NO MODEL.

UNITED STATES Patented September 13, 1904.

PATENT OEETEE.

HENRY F. VOGEL, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, ASSIGNOR TO ST. LOUIS OAR COMPANY, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI, A CORPORATION.

CAR CONSTRUCTION.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 770,132, dated September 13, 1904:.

Application filed January 16, 1904. Serial No. 189,270- (No model.)

To all whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, HENRY F.VoeEL, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city of St. Louis and State of Missouri, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Car Construction, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming part of this specification.

My invention relates to an improvement in a construction of street-railway or other cars, the improvements relating to reinforcing metal posts introduced between the wooden windowposts of a car; also, to a novel form of carlines connected to said reinforcing-posts; also, to means whereby the wooden window-posts are secured to the reinforcing-posts.

The invention consists in features of novelty hereinafter fully described, and pointed out in the claim.

Figure I is a vertical transverse section taken through one side of a car having my improvements embodied thereon. Fig. II is a perspective view of one end of one of the carlines. Fig. III is a perspective view of one of the metal reinforcing-posts. Fig. IV is an enlarged vertical section through the upper corner of a car furnished with my improvements. Fig.V is an enlarged horizontal section taken on line V V, Fig. I. Fig.VI is an enlarged section taken through one of the wooden window-posts and one of the nuts seated therein to receive one of the bolts that connect the wooden Window-posts to the reinforcing metal posts. Fig. VII is an enlarged horizontal section taken on line VII VII, Fig. I. Fig. VIII is an enlarged horizontal section taken on line VIII VIII, Fig. I. Fig. IX is an enlarged vertical section taken through the lower corner of the car construction in accordance with my invention.

1 designates the side sills of a car, of which there are two at each side of the car, united by tie-bolts 2. (See Figs. I and IX.)

3 is the Wainscot, that is secured at its lower edge to the inner side sill 1 by a bottom rail 4:.

5 is the lower outside panel, extending upwardly from the outer side sill 1.

6 designates panel-rails, to which the panel 5 extends and to which the Wainscot 3 is connected by an upper Wainscot-rail 7. The panelrails 6 are surmounted by an upper outside panel 8 and an inside panel 9. The upper ends of the panels 8 and 9 are secured to windowsill rails 10.

11 designates metal reinforcing windowposts located at each window in the car, these posts being of T shape and having flanges 12, that are located at the inner sides of the posts, and webs 13, which project outwardly from the heads at which the flanges are located. In the webs of the post are holes 14. The reinforcing-posts are bent inwardly from a point 15 to furnish the desirable contour according to the tapering plane of the Wainscot and lower outside panel of the car, and at the lower termination of each reinforcing-post is a perforated leg 16, which corresponds to the flangehead of the main body of the post and seats between the side sills 1, where it receives the tie-bolts passing therethrough. forcing-post terminates at its upper end in a perforated upright 17, offset from the flangehead of the post.

18 designates the wooden window-posts, that are seated at each side of the reinforcing-posts l1 and which are of a contour to fit the flanges and web of the reinforcing-posts. Each of the wooden posts 18 is furnished with holes extending transversely thereto in positions corresponding to the holes 14 in the reinforcing-post webs.

19 designates bolts that pass through the holes in the wooden window-posts and reinforcing-post webs, as seen in Fig. V. At the location of the bolts 19 in one of each pair of wooden posts is a socket 20, from which extend grooves 21. In these sockets are seated nuts 22, that are provided with wings 23, which enter the grooves 21 of the sockets 20. The nuts are thereby held from turning, so that when the bolts 19 are secured thereinto they will remain in a fixed position during the introduction of the posts to secure the wooden and reinforcing posts together.

24 designates the window-sashes, which are seated between outer stops 25 and inner stops 26, the latter of which are grooved, as seen in Each rein- Fig. V, to provide guides for the window-curtain.

27 designates carlines that extend transversely of the car, as usual, and are provided with angle ends 28, that occupy vertical lines corresponding to the positions of the reinforcing-posts uprights 17 29 is a metal stringer extending longitudinally of the car side and interposed between the ends of the carlines 27 and the reinforcing-posts uprights 17 The ends of the carlines, the stringer 29, and reinforcing-posts uprights are secured together by tie-bolts 30 passing therethrough, as seen in Fig. IV, thereby firmly uniting said members in order that they may resist strain as a unit and that any strain incurred by one of the members will be resisted by the others in common therewith.

HENRY F. VOGEL.

In presence of M. H. MURPHY, A. DIEKMANN. 

